Boy finds second home with Evangel basketball team

7:10 AM,
Jan. 29, 2013

Fourteen-year-old Christopher Banks, left, listens in the Evangel huddle during the Crusaders' game against Benedictine on Saturday. Banks, 14, has been a fixture around the basketball program since having surgery on a brain tumor three years ago.

Written by

Casey Bayliss
CBAYLISS@NEWS-LEADER.COM

If you're ever following the Evangel University men's basketball team, either in practice or a game, one of the Crusaders seems out of place, leaving you to think, 'He's too young to be on a college team.' "

But for 14-year-old Christopher Banks, he is right at home with the family.

When he was diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2008 - it turned out to be benign - doctors told the family that Christopher would not play sports again and he would likely die in his sleep. ...